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Yesterday, I was diving into the first draft of my third novel in the Luke In Time Mysteries, and I came to a point where I knew that one of the antagonistic characters owned a cellphone with magical powers, but I couldn't think of exactly how I wanted the powers to work so I decided to ask Chat GPT to help me brainstorm. It agreed, "gladly."
After just five detailed questions and responses me and Chatty had devised a brilliant, subtle and frightening magical power for the phone that was quite pleasing.
When I told Ashley I'd done this, she said, great, next thing you know AI will be writing all our books, and I said, "Boy that'd save me a lot of time."
I had the sense she might've been implying something else with her comment, but I'm just a silly human, so I took her comment at face value.
May 1, 2023Liked by Thomas J Bevan, Terry Freedman
Horrible.
My fear is that we don't even make it to the "actually intelligent" machines. I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago, hypothesizing that there may come a time in the very near future where China accidentally turns the entire management of its government to a set of CCP-approved algorithms. Obviously the same thing could happen anywhere -- already does happen on smaller scales everywhere -- but China is a much more successful authoritarian regime than anywhere else right now, so it's not hard to imagine total capture by code.
Valid points. Conceivably AI could eliminate (or get close to eliminating) annoying human error which, when it comes to things like grocery checkout lines or the well-intentioned asshole coughing into his mic on a work zoom call, would be glorious.
Thanks for the kind words, Thomas. 😃
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😂
Yesterday, I was diving into the first draft of my third novel in the Luke In Time Mysteries, and I came to a point where I knew that one of the antagonistic characters owned a cellphone with magical powers, but I couldn't think of exactly how I wanted the powers to work so I decided to ask Chat GPT to help me brainstorm. It agreed, "gladly."
After just five detailed questions and responses me and Chatty had devised a brilliant, subtle and frightening magical power for the phone that was quite pleasing.
When I told Ashley I'd done this, she said, great, next thing you know AI will be writing all our books, and I said, "Boy that'd save me a lot of time."
I had the sense she might've been implying something else with her comment, but I'm just a silly human, so I took her comment at face value.
Lol. I might try asking ChatGPT to write an article in my style. If it works, maybe a novel. 😁
The angst is real!
Does it show?😁
There's really nothing more frustrating 'computer says no', is there?
*bangs head repeatedly against wall*
Great post - thanks Thomas and Terry!
Head banging: 100%. Thanks, Rebecca
Horrible.
My fear is that we don't even make it to the "actually intelligent" machines. I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago, hypothesizing that there may come a time in the very near future where China accidentally turns the entire management of its government to a set of CCP-approved algorithms. Obviously the same thing could happen anywhere -- already does happen on smaller scales everywhere -- but China is a much more successful authoritarian regime than anywhere else right now, so it's not hard to imagine total capture by code.
Everything run by code: 😮
Valid points. Conceivably AI could eliminate (or get close to eliminating) annoying human error which, when it comes to things like grocery checkout lines or the well-intentioned asshole coughing into his mic on a work zoom call, would be glorious.
Definitely!